London—October 1940 Summary

Doreen tells Polly that Marjorie was trapped under the rubble for three days before rescuers found her. Marjorie was in an abandoned house. She has a ruptured spleen and three broken ribs and is in the hospital. Polly convinces herself that the retrieval team could think she is dead, so she says she's attending her aunt's funeral so she can check the issues of the newspapers around the time everyone thought Polly died in the church bombing.

Polly doesn't find a death notice or a mention of her name in the news stories she finds. She also thinks that even if everyone else at Oxford was distracted, busy or had forgotten about her that Colin never would. On her way back to the store, she stops at Padgett's. Polly thinks about how it is bombed tonight and that there...